{"id":672390,"date":"2020-11-09T12:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=672390"},"modified":"2020-11-09T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:54:58","slug":"infection-by-parasites-disturbs-flight-behaviour-in-shoals-of-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=672390","title":{"rendered":"Infection by parasites disturbs flight behaviour in shoals of fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to escape predators, many fish\u2014including insects, fish and birds\u2014have developed strategies for rapidly transmitting information on threats to others of their species. This information is transmitted within a group of hundreds, or even thousands, of individuals in &#8216;escape&#8217; waves. This collective response is also, in the case of fish, known as shoal behavior. Special parasites can, however, manipulate such a survival strategy. Researchers at the University of M\u00fcnster have discovered that infected individual fish disturb the transmission of flight behavior and, as a result, increase not only their own risk of being eaten, but also that of other\u2014non-infected\u2014members of the group. The results of the study have been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-11-infection-parasites-disturbs-flight-behaviour.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Infection by parasites disturbs flight behaviour in shoals of fish<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to escape predators, many fish\u2014including insects, fish and birds\u2014have developed strategies for rapidly transmitting information on threats to others of their species. This information is transmitted within a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}